State election officials are taking steps to preserve ballots and other records from the 2024 election after the Justice Department issued litigation-hold notices, an extension of the Trump administration‘s fight for access to state voter rolls following multiple courtroom defeats. Nevada has asked counties to retain election materials indefinitely, including any remaining records from 2022, […]

GOP consultant and former Bush adviser Karl Rove explained his decision to vote for the Democrat running against Bo French, the Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, marking the second time he has voted for a Democrat. Rove had called French a “bigot” days earlier for posting a picture of seemingly Asian American and […]

President Donald Trump tore into the “hostile” Federal Reserve after the board voted on Wednesday to raise interest rates but held back criticism of Chairman Kevin Warsh, whom he tapped to lead the central bank earlier this year. Speaking with reporters in North Carolina, Trump was asked about the interest rate decision. The president said Warsh’s […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ripped into former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and his “band of communists” for crime in the state, branding his chosen candidate in the Tarheel State Senate race, Michael Whatley, as tough on crime. Trump was in Charlotte stumping for Whatley when he leaned into a familiar Republican line […]